An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

Part arcade, part museum, this collection features vintage and modern pinball machines.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

The remnants of a fictional Viking village film set now serve as an educational and historical hotspot.

This mountain trail inspired Nietzsche to complete his magnum opus.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

Iron Age grave stones and Viking burials, a short drive from Gothenburg.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

This Danish rock field is actually a sprawling ancient cemetery holding the bodies of 700 Vikings.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

This burial mound is said to be the final resting place of Russia's first Viking ruler, Oleg of Novogrod.